[Greek Mythology] Beside the Throne

Prometheus successfully stole a ray of flame from Helios' sun golden chariot and returned to the earth.When he came to the earth, the power of time and space attached to him disappeared instantly.

The human race saw Prometheus, who was holding a flame, with longing and anticipation in his eyes.

Prometheus walked towards them, and so far, the fire of mankind has never been extinguished.

The gods of Olympus far away in the sky saw the scene of flames igniting on the earth again, and disbelief appeared on their faces.

Zeus looked down at the earth below the clouds, saw the ignited spark, and frowned.

Who will defy him at his command?

He must find that person.

But now the top priority is humans and Prometheus.

Zeus ordered to put human beings in a state of fire again, but the appearance of three goddesses from the underworld made him and other gods dispel this idea.

"A method that has dealt with humans cannot be used a second time."

Crotone in the Goddess of Fate said to Zeus.

She is the goddess who controls the future and spins the thread of life among the three goddesses, and is also the younger sister of the other two goddesses.

These three goddesses have the same appearance, but the difference in expression and posture allows people to see the difference at a glance.

They have dwelt in Tartarus since their birth, and the gods have not seen them.

This time, the human affairs caused them to be born, and the gods were all shocked.

The goddess of fate who can control the fate of the gods, the gods of Olympus are afraid and dare not approach.No one wants to offend them, and no one wants to touch them.

Even Zeus can't disobey their words, they are destiny and the spokesperson of the law.To disobey the arrangement of fate is to oppose this world, and even the king of gods cannot do it.

After the goddess of fate finished speaking, she immediately left in Olympus.

They turned into light smoke and dispersed, lingering in the air like gossamer of fate.

All the gods looked at Zeus, waiting for the command of the god king.

Humans can let it go for now, but Prometheus and the god who helped him...

"Check!" Zeus turned around and said to the gods present.

They could see that Zeus was angry.

The wrath of the god king did not reach the human race on the earth, but captured Prometheus who had been helping them and defying the divine right.

Prometheus took Zeus' godliness away as expected.

Compared with sneaking into Olympus like before when he went to meet Hera, this time, he took big strides and walked calmly.Other than the chains on his hands which made him uncomfortable, everything else was fine.

Prometheus walked into the temple of Olympus with heavy chains on his back.

The chain fell on the floor tiles and made a sound with the steps of Prometheus, interrupting the heavy silence in the temple.

"Long time no see, Your Majesty." Prometheus greeted Zeus first.

His calm and straightforward appearance combined with his handsome appearance has always been the best candidate for the goddesses to choose a partner, but now everything he does makes the goddesses flinch.They don't want to get involved with this god who betrayed the Protoss.But only one goddess watched him with worried eyes.This is Prometheus' lifelong friend, Athena.

Zeus had already lifted the ban on her leaving Olympus, but she didn't expect to see her friend being bound as soon as she came out.

Zeus looked at Prometheus standing below with deep eyes.

The friend who had helped him become a god king would come to this point one day.

What Prometheus did in the past could not reduce Zeus's anger, but instead made Zeus constantly wonder whether it was because of the original credit that Prometheus did what he did now, ignoring him and theocracy, Wanton provocation.

"Prometheus." Zeus said his name.

"Yeah." The Sin God below agreed.He gladly faced the punishment Zeus was about to inflict on him, and he accepted it no matter what.From a god's point of view, he is indeed a traitor, but facing the human race, he doesn't think he is at fault.That's why Prometheus is fearless, because he's right.

"I don't know how to repent, and I help the race you created to betray the Protoss again and again..."

Zeus spoke of his crime and announced his punishment.

Under the watchful eyes of the gods, Prometheus was taken out of the temple by two powerful gods in shackles to the Caucasus Mountains where he will atone for his sins.

On the highest peak of the Caucasus Mountains, Prometheus will be chained to the rock above, unable to struggle, and hungry eagles will come to peck at his liver every day.But because Prometheus is still a god, he will not die.It will only heal the wound day after day and wait for the eagle to come the next day.

Such suffering has no time limit, and Zeus has not set a time for his punishment, so until Ragnarok, the moment of the end of this world.Only Prometheus could be freed.Of course liberation also means death.

When Prometheus went to the Caucasus Mountains, he looked down at the human race on the ground for the last time, and then he raised his head and looked straight ahead, calmly facing everything he had suffered.

The human race he created could destroy the gods, but he was originally a god.For this, he will suffer forever to atone for his sin.

On the high mountain, the wind that blows is biting.They are like a pair of steel knives sharpening the rocky mountain.

Looking up is the pale sunlight, which is so intense that it almost blinds the eyes.The howling of the eagle pierced through the ears, and the shrill cry made people feel frightened.

Sharp nails were driven into the wrists and ankles, and the blood that flowed from the hot water had dried up and turned into brown marks, and even the rocks on the back were stained with blood.In addition, Prometheus was bound with chains.His bare chest is mottled with scars and open flesh.

The smell of blood spread in the air, attracting falcons flying above the cliff.

Prometheus doesn't care, though.

Bearing all this day and night made him numb.

Flapping its wings and flying towards Prometheus, an eagle that was about to eat his liver was knocked away by a divine force before it saw its prey.

Prometheus, who hung his head on his chest tiredly, raised his head with difficulty. He could even hear the sound of his spine rubbing against each other, like the impact of stones.

"It's you." Prometheus didn't expect him to appear here.

Prometheus licked his pale chapped lips and said hoarsely, "Hera, what are you doing here?"

Floating in mid-air and looking at Prometheus is Hera who should be far away on Mount Olympus.

The wind blew through his hair and robe, but nothing messed up.

Hera's expression carried the self-restraint and arrogance of a god. Although he was looking at Prometheus at the same level, Prometheus had a feeling of being looked down upon by him.

No god likes this look, even if he is now a sinful god who is being punished.

"Are you here to see my embarrassing end?" Prometheus smiled frustratedly.

He added: "As you can see, I'm not doing very well."

"Yeah, hanging on the cliff with blocked divine power, and being pecked by these falcons, is not as good as Uranus and Cronus in the abyss of hell." Hera looked at him and said clearly.The sympathy is beyond words.

It's just that the previous two generations of god kings who were sealed and sleeping were indeed much better off than him.

Prometheus smiled wryly.

"Since you've seen it all, why don't you leave? Do you also want to have a taste of this?"

Prometheus didn't really want Hera to go, no one could talk to him here.It would be nice to have someone to chat with him.But Prometheus, who still retained the pride of the gods, still had to say something to get angry with the gods he couldn't understand.

As the god of wisdom, Prometheus boasted that he was no worse than his father, the god of souls, in seeing people's hearts, but he still couldn't understand Hera.Perhaps no one can understand him, the God of Time and Space.

"No." Hera raised her slender index finger and shook Prometheus, saying, "Do you want to leave?"

Hearing Hera's words, Prometheus was a little surprised.

He looked up at Hera in surprise and said, "Are you kidding me?"

"Am I like a joker?" Hera said to him, folded her arms.

He's not joking, he's here to let Prometheus go this time.

"Why?" For a god of wisdom to ask why frequently, Prometheus was really ashamed of himself.

Helping himself to get the fire and letting himself go out of here, what is Hera planning?

What reason prompted him to do so?

Prometheus couldn't figure it out.

"I would," Hera said.

His casual appearance gave Prometheus a headache.

"Are you really unwilling to go?" Hera asked again.

"But you help me for no reason like this scares me." Prometheus said calmly.

There is no way to be locked here or released, and Prometheus still chooses the status quo.His Olympic can't go to the earth, and he can't go there. There is no place to take him.

This is the vastness of the world, the loneliness with nowhere to stay.

"Do you still care about human beings?" Hera caught the gloomy emotion on Prometheus' face.

"What do you mean?" Prometheus asked.

"The lifespan of human beings is not comparable to that of gods. They will die one day, but their souls can only wander and mourn in this world, so you don't care. Let them go?"

"You..." Hera talked about the problem that Prometheus had always wanted to solve but never solved.

Destination of the human soul.

Hera didn't speak, he waved his hand and lifted the seal set by Zeus on him.

"Go to Hades."

"Go to Hades."

"What about you?" Prometheus asked.The recovery of divine power made Prometheus sigh comfortably, and he pulled out the nails on his body.The previous chains also fell into the bottom of the endless cliff and disappeared.

"I'd better go back to Olympus." Hera glanced at him.

"You will be revenged by Zeus!"

"What is there to be afraid of?" Hera waved at him.

"Go, both humans and Hades need you, you just go to yours, and let me handle the rest."

Prometheus swallowed what he wanted to say, and greeted Hera with the ancient etiquette of the protoss.After taking a deep look at Hera, he headed towards Hades.

After Prometheus left, Hera conjured him on the rock where Prometheus was punished, then left and returned to Olympus.

The seal of Prometheus was broken.

Zeus already knew.

There is only one person who can undo his divine power.

Hera.

Divas with whom he shares rights.

Before, the sun god Helios came to Zeus and said that he found an inexplicable divine power in the golden chariot he drove every day.

The source of this divine power is Hera.

Zeus kept the matter to himself, did not tell Helios and warned him not to speak out.

He waved him back in Helios' puzzled eyes.

At this moment, Zeus is sitting in Hera's temple waiting for Hera's arrival.

A storm was brewing in his eyes.